Healing

BEING LIGHT AND LOVE by MOTHER THERESA

People are often unreasonable,
Illogical, and self centred.
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may
Accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win
Some false friends and some true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank,
People my cheat you.
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building,
Someone could destroy overnight.
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness,
They may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today,
People will often forget tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have,
And it may never be enough.
Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis,
It is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway.

To me - healing relates to three main areas of my life …

• Physical - Finding the other parts of my life that are not in alignment with my soul’s needs, i.e. my job, my diet, my exercise, my relationships etc. and realigning them with what my soul needs, rather than my personality, thus creating harmony in my being.
• Psychological - a) EMOTIONAL Finding the parts of my personality that are not in alignment with my soul – i.e. that are coming from a place of woundedness and fear, and healing them, realigning them with love, creating harmony in my being. - b) MENTAL finding thoughts and perspectives that are limiting or no longer appropriate for my present state of consciousness.
• Spiritual - Expanding my consciousness and embodying divine energy and living from that more expanded place.

Of course it helps to know what the authentic needs of the soul are and what the inauthentic needs of the personality are.  Gary Zukav’s books, particularly The Seat of the Soul and The Heart of the Soul are of great use in understanding authentic needs, but I will just give a few pointers to get us going here.  If you are reading this website the chances are you already know.

WE AUTHENTICALLY NEED THE FOLLOWING TO BE HEALTHY AND WHOLE:

• Fresh Air, exercise, food, water and the right amount of sleep for our individual needs.  (The particulars of these physical requirements depend obviously on our own unique physiognomy.  This we have to work out for ourselves).
• Warmth, shelter, clothes.
• Loving, close relationships – connection, union to others.
• Fulfilment - To find the reason or purpose that we are here – i.e. to find our own unique and special gifts and to give them to the world in our own unique and special way.  Perhaps through our job (if we have followed our bliss and created or found the right work), or in our spare time.
• A sense of deeper meaning and purpose running through our life.

If you lack any of these then please get assistance in finding them – your life will change for the better…

*THE REST IS ALL JUST DECORATION *

If all parts of my personality are in the process of healing and I am living my life according to what my soul and not my personality needs then I will be healthy and whole.  If I am not, then my job is to find what is out of balance or harmony within me and do something about it. Once I am healthy and whole I contribute to the health and wholeness of everything and everyone else.

I can go and get help from some form of healer/therapist/loving friend to assist me with this process if I am stuck somewhere, or if I need more energy or clarity than I can find alone.  A healer is not someone who fixes me, but assists me on my journey to wholeness.  We all need assistance at times.  We are not totally independent beings and should not try to function as such, or we become lost and alone.  We are all inter-dependent, not just human beings dependent on each other, but all of life is inter-dependent - like one great interconnected web of pulsing, vibrating, wonderful life.

When we are out of harmony with the web of life, (with what I understand as the divine made manifest), we become ill in a variety of weird and wonderful ways.  We respond to illness (or any other challenge) in our life in one of two ways, we contract in fear and doubt or we expand in love and trust.  Only one of these helps us to grow and become all we can be.

I FEEL THAT THE MAIN WAY TO HEALTH IS THROUGH OPENING IN LOVE AND TRUST TO OUR EXPERIENCES and learning from them, letting them guide us back towards the harmony that comes from being aligned with the divine in our life. 

The Lyfe4Lyfe is a symbol of this, and as such is great to meditate on.  The LOTUS represents opening in trust, whilst being grounded in the earth; The YIN YANG represents the centre point of harmony and balance that exists within the tension created between the opposite poles of force in the universe; and finally the FLOW of the water and flames represent the divine flow within and above the natural world, that structure the universe.  These flames are various colours as they represent the flow of water and emotion; the etheric flow of the subtle or psychic levels and the flow of fire, which can represent the mind and/or divine spirit. Finally, there is an ENERGY of transformation that is created by the interplay of the elements that make up the symbol. Thus we grow towards wholeness and bliss - the natural state that we experience when we find our still centre and learn to rest in it, during meditation.

The black background symbolises the nothingness or void that is the deeper state of our being and that out of which the universe has manifested.

Although I am now working mainly on creating, facilitating, supporting and running retreats, I am still offering healing and holistic counselling sessions. I usually recommend an initial session to see if we can work together and then offer sessions in groups of six. I charge the usual £30 per session, and can offer concessions or exchanges. I work in the Wirral and West Wales areas..

If you live elsewhere I would recommend seeing someone trained at the College of Healing in Malvern College of Healing in Malvern.  I found the training there excellent, in depth and of a very high quality.  However, I cannot vouch personally for any particular healer.  But this is a start.  I would not recommend seeing someone who has had only a couple of weekends of Reiki training.  However, that is not to knock Reiki per se, but one weekend does not a healer make.  Check out what other training they have.

The College of Healing (COH) and the National Federation of Spiritual Healers (NFSH) are both schools that run training courses over years, not weekends.  Therefore, I suggest that you put your money and your energy in the hands of someone with more training, and that you trust and feel good about after an initial meeting or two, to see if you gel.  Make sure that they have proper qualifications or follow your intuition (I have met qualified healers and therapists that have no people skills whatsoever, so I would go with your INTUITION, and of course you must like the person who is working with you).  Most importantly, remember that your health is always YOUR RESPONSIBILITY and no one else can fix you, they can only assist your personal process.

For a list of qualified healers in your area contact the COH as below. 
http://www.collegeofhealing.org/healers.html    You can also find training courses at both these sites if you wish to be a healer yourself.

For finding a healer from the NFSH go to:
http://www.nfsh.org.uk/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=122

WISHING YOU THE BEST OF HEALTH, WHOLENESS & HARMONY

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